An organizational behavior approach for managing change in information systems

Summary form only given. The primary concern of system designers, both organizational and software, is in providing the most effective structure through which the individual activities are harmonized, and directed toward the accomplishment of the organization´s goals. In this paper basic principles from the science of organizational behavior are combined with well-established design principles from information systems to explore a new design model for information systems. A new model or architecture called software teams is proposed for rapidly changing, intelligent environments to facilitate the creation and ongoing evolution of a distributed IS that is fluid, just like the evolving organizations it needs to support